Microsoft’s vision of using artificial intelligence to take some of the drudgery out of creating spreadsheets, documents and slide presentations is running into snags at businesses like Ascendion, a technology consulting firm. The firm has about 100 employees testing a Microsoft AI feature known as 365 Copilot that automates tasks in Microsoft 365, the suite of applications, formerly known as Office, that includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The AI does... Read more ›
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Around the peak of Miami’s hype as a burgeoning startup hub, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz opened an office there. Now, two years later, the firm has shuttered it, Bloomberg reports. Miami attracted scores of venture capitalists and startup founders during the pandemic, ... Read more ›
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Safe Superintelligence Inc., the secretive artificial intelligence lab started by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in capital, the company said. The company may have raised the capital across numerous rounds. The company has authorized series seed, seed extension and ... Read more ›
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A UK regulator has cleared Microsoft’s deal with the AI startup Inflection to hire most of its staff and pay for its intellectual property, closing its investigation into the deal. The UK Competition and Markets Authority said on Wednesday that it had determined that Microsoft’s unusual ... Read more ›
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The biggest artificial intelligence developers are abuzz over Elon Musk’s claim on Monday that he completed a cluster of 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips in four months, to be used to train the next models of his startup, xAI.If true, the cluster would be the most powerful cluster of graphics processing units in the world, but its rapid buildout would fly in the face of conventional wisdom about how long it... Read more ›
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As Canva moves toward a possible initial public offering, the graphic design software company has a big hole: Its chief financial officer resigned in February and hasn’t been replaced. What’s more, just three of its seven C-suite executives have worked at a public company. There’s more public company experience among people in the next tiers of management at the Australia-based company. Nearly half of the 41 leaders on The Information’s... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group said its Taobao and Tmall online shopping sites in China will soon start accepting WeChat Pay, developed by rival Tencent, as one of the payment methods for purchases. The move is the biggest step yet by China’s two biggest tech giants toward making their consumer apps ... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s plan to raise money for new data centers, power sources, and chip manufacturing plants for artificial intelligence will start in the U.S. and could cost tens of billions of dollars, according to a Bloomberg report. Investors in other countries such as Canada, Korea, Japan ... Read more ›
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Just what we needed: a stock market chill to remind us that summer is over. Investors on Wall Street were dumping stocks left, right and center on Tuesday, after anemic manufacturing data reminded people of economic uncertainties they had put out of their minds. Tech stocks were a sea of red, from the smallest to the biggest companies. But the size of the price drop varied a lot. While most... Read more ›
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The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a subpoena to Nvidia, as part of a probe looking at whether the firm is engaging in anticompetitive practices, according to a Bloomberg report. The agency is concerned that Nvidia is abusing its market dominance by locking-in existing customers in and ... Read more ›
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As funding for startups outside artificial intelligence has dried up, more founders have contemplated takeover offers. But such deals can sour if the founders agree to an all-stock deal—and the acquiring business doesn’t live up to its promises.That’s essentially the situation the shareholders of venture-backed Canadian startup Kabo allege they’re in, a little over a year after selling the company, which sells pet food directly to consumers. Read more ›
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TikTok parent company ByteDance increased the share price in its latest employee buyback, an increase that’s in line with secondary market trades that have lifted its valuation close to $230 billion. The company offered to buy back shares from current employees at about $181 a share, and about ... Read more ›
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Two commissioners at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the country’s top consumer products watchdog, called for an investigation of Shein, Temu and other foreign-owned e-commerce sites to better understand how the platforms work and whether they’re complying with U.S. safety ... Read more ›
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For years, creatine was best known as a supplement for hardcore gym enthusiasts looking to get a workout boost. More recently, popular podcasters and health and fitness influencers like Joe Rogan and Andrew Huberman have been touting other purported health benefits of creatine, like better cognitive function and sleep.One supplement startup, Create, is benefitting from creatine’s broader social media popularity. Create recently raised $5 million in Series A funding from... Read more ›
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Paul Graham’s essay on founder mode captured the imagination of Silicon Valley this weekend by clearly articulating the magic we witness in many founder-driven companies. As someone who spent a decade working under a generational founder at Meta Platforms and now sits on the board of two founder-led companies (Shopify and OpenAI), I wholeheartedly agree that we need to understand what makes founder mode so special. However, assuming that only... Read more ›
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ByteDance has increased its share price in its latest employee buyback, an increase that's in line with secondary market trades that have lifted its valuation close to $230 billion. The TikTok parent set the price for an upcoming employee share buyback at about $181 a share, while it will offer former employees about $154 a share, according to a notice sent to current and former employees. In March, ByteDance offered... Read more ›
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The Redstone family’s recent decision to sell Paramount Global, as well as Warner Bros. Discovery’s loss of NBA broadcasting rights, reflect the perilous state of traditional TV companies, mostly due to the slow decline of the hugely lucrative cable TV machine. Of the traditional TV firms, Disney may be best positioned to survive the coming shakeout, judging by its strength in video-streaming advertising, which is emerging as the most important... Read more ›
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Developers of artificial intelligence say they need bigger and bigger data centers to concentrate processing power so that it produces better versions of the technology.The companies are notoriously secretive about the details of those plans, though, which is why we just published an AI Data Center Database that lists some of the biggest existing and upcoming data centers—which we also call supercomputers or AI chip clusters—as the race among half... Read more ›
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The biggest developers of artificial intelligence closely guard their state-of-the-art technology, but they’re arguably even more secretive about the specialized data centers needed to develop it. The Information is lifting the veil on existing and planned AI data centers, sometimes known as supercomputers or AI chip clusters, in a first-of-its-kind database. The accompanying map lists 17 supercomputing data centers in seven U.S. states that are in operation or planned by... Read more ›
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ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is in talks with banks to arrange a $9.5 billion loan, mainly to refinance existing debt on favorable terms, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. This is part of the Chinese tech giant’s long-term financing strategy. While ... Read more ›
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